Fairy Tail x Soul Eater
Chapter 6: It's Time to Dance!
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"How do ya like that, Stripper?!" Natsu gibbed with an uppercut to Grey.
"Is that all you got?" he dared along with a kick to the gut.
Attack after attack, they fought with an insult added on both getting their fair share of bruises and cuts. Happy, who flew around the ice and fire wizards, acted as a referee, counting the attacks they each put into one another. So far Natsu was in the lead by two attacks more than Grey yet, but Grey was rapidly catching up.
"Pervert!"
"Flame Brain!"
Dragon– wait, Happy what time is it?"
"Uh...6:32?" Happy answered and was dumbfounded because never once had he seen a Natsu and Grey fight be paused by one of them.
"Shit!" Grey cursed as he stopped the fight with Natsu and started towards the door.
"Hey! Where are ya going? If you walk out now, that means I won by default!"
"I'm going to go get something to wear for the party."
"I don't see the need to buy something fancy-schmancy for a party." Natsu doubted
Grey, knowing Natsu is an idiot who wouldn't understand proper attire to wear something formal to an event like this, decides to simplify things a bit.
"How do you think Erza or Lucy will react if you go to the party in the clothes you wore yesterday?"
It took him a moment to understand what Grey was getting at and fear seeped through him through the thought of angry Erza or his partner.
He shivers and gives in, "I'm coming!"
Grey opens the four and immediately closes it
"Huh? Why'd ya close it, dumbass?"
Disregarding the insult, Grey informed, "The girls are back and if they see that we're not ready, we're done for."
The houses the mages are staying in aren't too far away from each other and are in fact remarkably close.
"Crap…" Natsu curses.
The three of them all think together in silence to try to figure out how the heck they're gonna get out of there without the girls finding them. Surprisingly, Natsu is the first one that has an idea.
"Out the window!"
"You really do have flames for brains!" Grey jeered.
"Well do ya have a better one?!"
Natsu, Grey, and Happy all headed out to one of the wide rectangular windows in one of the bedrooms because as the houses are relatively close they are also relatively identical interior-wise.
In the distance you can see two mages and an exceed all run, and or flying, for their lives to the nearest boutique.
Later
"You guys finally decided to show up." Erza addressed.
For this evening, Erza was wearing a black jumpsuit with faint silver lines and a low V-neck. She accessorized with crescent moon earrings that brought out the faint sparkling silver lines. Her beautiful scarlet hair was in an up-do bun with small strands of hair around her face.
"Yeah, I went back to the house to check in on you and Happy to find out that you guys weren't there," Lucy added with a perplexed look that shaped her eyebrows upwards and pursed her lip a little.
Lucy's outfit for tonight consists of the white dress that Maka had picked out earlier that had spaghetti straps. The dress itself had reached down to her knees flowing outwards by the wind. Accessorized with small sun earrings she borrowed from Maka and two long golden necklaces, one shorter than the other but still long, she borrowed from Tsubaki. Her hair was put in two long side ponytails that rivaled Maka's.
"Happy and I were Grey's," Natsu confirmed and Grey nodded as confirmation.
Grey and Natsu were wearing almost identical black tuxedos, mainly because Natsu didn't know what to get so he copied whatever Grey had gotten. The only difference is the color of the tie to what Natsu had gotten a deep maroon while Grey has gotten a blue one that looked similar to a certain water mage's hair.
"I like your dress the best, Carla." Happy complimented, eyes were glued to her and not the fresh fish that the staff had placed, can distract him. Carla has a short blush pink dress with white kitty paw prints at the end that had off the shoulder straps. Her pure white hair was in a half up half down with a small kitty hairpin in the back.
"I suppose your look isn't so bad...Happy." She said. His face flushed in a color that complimented her face that you'd forget he was a blue cat. Before the two mages left the boutique, Happy had decided to buy a small green tie that went well with his natural periwinkle color fur.
"Maybe we should go inside and look for Maka and her friends?" Wendy proposed. She was wearing a small navy blue dress with a star pattern that danced all over her dress. Her dress was in a turtleneck style and had a white ribbon that went around her waist and made a bow in the back.
Shortly after Wendy had said that Maka and Soul were walking up the stairs to the mages, bickering of course.
Soul started "You didn't even tell me where you went! That's not cool."
"For the last time, I did! You were just too busy playing video games with BlackStar." she defended
"There you guys are! And look! You're even wearing the dress I picked out." Lucy gushed.
Indeed, Maka was wearing the dress that Lucy had picked out at the boutique. It was a long black strapless dress that flowed out to her ankles with a white fabric underneath that added to the flow. Her outfit was complete with long black gloves and her usual pigtails on the side of her head.
"Shall we wait for Tsubaki and her meister?" Erza queried.
"Nah, I think they're inside with Kid, Liz, and Patty." clarified Soul. He was wearing the same outfit that he wore to the Eve's Party but, only this time a certain meister put a small rose on the left front pocket of his tuxedo.
As they entered into the party they had already lost Happy and Carla as Happy flew over to the fish and Carla, hesitantly, following.
The mages had met the fellow DWMA students who had received a well-established impression of BlackStar when he gibbed at Maka and Soul's mistake of mixing up the two mages and witches, when they explained how they had met with Fairy Tail.
Tsubaki, noticing the awkward chuckled and annoyed stares, changes the subject over to Kid, "So did your dad tell you about Fairy Tail teaching DWMA?"
"No, no I did not …"
It was truly strange to Kid that his father did not decide to tell him about this, and he awfully felt betrayed at this morning's announcement. Just when he thought he and his father could tell each other everything even after what had happened after the Kisin.
"By the way, Tsubaki, your dress is stunning. So are all of yours but hers is my favorite." Liz chimed in.
Tsubaki was wearing a mermaid style pearl dress with small iridescent sparkles all over that had a low U-neck, much similar to Erza's. To see it off she had a few white bracelets and her traditional high ponytail.
"Only I had wished Patty and I would wear something like that but somebody had other plans." she continued, side-eyeing Kid who he obviously knew who that someone is.
"What do you mean? You guys look perfectly symmetrical! Unlike Natsu and his dreadful hair."
"Wh-What do you have against my hair?"
"Well for starters…"
Kid and Natsu continue to quarrel and laughter is spread across the group until Maka notices Soul has left and she has an idea where he went.
Meanwhile
History repeats itself as Soul stares off to the rest of Death City. He hears footsteps coming his way he was for them to come closer to him.
"Maka–" Soul starts only to be interrupted.
"Wrong."
"Maka's creepy old dad?!" blurted Soul.
"I'm not that old!" Spirit defends.
"Anyway, what do you want, old man?"
Ignoring his last comment, Spirit continues, "This won't take long. Soul, you aren't as bad as I assumed you would be and you have proven to be a good weapon to Maka, more than that a friend. Your soul connection is strong, I can see that, and it might be even stronger than what I have with Maka or ever will be…" he takes a moment to fully develop what he had just said, and to see if Soul has anything to comment but he doesn't he just looks out at the city.
"So..uh.. be good to her please. For her old man's sake."
Spirit walks away leaving that last comment stick in his head. To think that he is done talking today is lie as the said girl walks over to Soul.
"We're dancing!" Make demands slightly flushed.
"As if I'd dance with a flat chest freak like you!"
"MAKA–"
Soul stops her hand that was about to smack his head and reassures by saying, "I was only joking, c'mon I'll lead."
The weapon and meister are out on the dance floor with Maka's hands intertwined with Soul's and he leads to the slow tune of the song.
"Were you and my dad talking?"
"No." Soul simply replied and is well partly true since he never did talk.
"Good," she remarks with a smile
They continued dancing in silence for a bit just looking at each other until they broke the trance by discussing the classes they would want to take tomorrow. Maka had unknowingly stepped on Soul's foot and he proposed a different technique that might be able to help. To that contained Soul's hands around her waist while she hung her own around his neck.
It did work because Maka didn't step on his foot throughout the dance and it attracted a particular celestial mage.
Upon seeing the two partners dance ever so gracefully, Lucy looked over to her partner and saw him stuffing his face with food. Putting things into her own measures, she grabs his hand and drags him to the dance floor.
"Let's dance!" She chirped up, already holding his hands in the proper position.
Natsu swallowed his last piece of food and groaned, "Awh! Why? You know I'm bad at this sort of thing."
"Please just once dance, I'll lead."
And so they danced, Natsu stepped on Lucy's foot a few times but eventually they got into the swing of things. They had even encouraged others to dance too like Carla and Happy, then Wendy with Grey. Along with DWMA students like BlackStar and Tsubaki then the trio of Kid, Patty, and Liz.
However, Erza was nowhere to be found, inside at least.
She was taking a view of the thousands of stairs and the lights that light up the city. The eerie feeling of the place changed into a mystical comforting atmosphere that she quickly admired.
Easily flustered at everyone being cute together she needed to leave and wait for the music to end. Thinking if a certain person and unknowingly played with the strands her hair 'Wow I'll never forget your name now. I'll just have to think of your pretty hair.'
"May I have this dance?"
Shaking that thought away she instantly put her guard up at the stranger to only be embarrassed again and shrieked, "J-Jellal?! What are you doing here?"
"First take my hand, and I'll explain everything."
She did, and she put her other hand around his neck while he put his on her waist. They didn't talk for a while and looked at each other listening to the faint music from inside. Erza opened her mouth to break the silence until Jellal beat her to the punch.
"I'm here on a trip with Crime Sorcière, we heard that not too long ago there was a massive evil that was here that they call Asura who was what they called a kishin."
He twirled her around and then pulled her close and she speculated on his message.
"What is it Erza? You're thinking if something isn't you?"
She nodded.
"Yes I am, when we first arrived here, my friends and I met a couple of DWMA students who told us a bit about Kishin and witches but entered one named Asura."
"Witches?" he questioned.
"Indeed."
"That's all very interesting, I think Crime Sorcière will just have to stay a little longer."
"I'd like that," she admitted without realizing it. Once she did, however, she and Jellal both heated up to a color that rivals Erza's hair. She let go of him.
"And...er...I look forward to what you find!" she stuttered.
He grabbed her hands reassuringly and spoke, "I look forward to my stay."
He let go and what had shown in the palm of her hands was a communication lacrima.
He continued, "That's for whenever we need to call each other."
She smiled at him and softly spoke, "Thank you, Jellal."
"And thank you, Erza"
Before she knew it he was gone and the music was over. It was about time to come inside and join the others.
"Ow! My neck hurts!" Happy groused.
"You probably just got bit by a bug or something. You'll be fine." Carla assured.
"Yeah I guess so but as long as you're here I'm all good!"
"Tomcat…"
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A/N
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Thank you all for waiting. I know this chapter is getting to you all late. I will be posting chapters on a regular basis.
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